Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Professor in History of science and ideas. Head of research for History and education and Umeå Research Centre for Social Studies Didactics (UmSOD). Assistant Head of Department.

PhD student in History and Education

I am a postdoctoral fellow working on AI-ethics.

Postdoctoral research fellow

I am a postdoc in philosophy, working at the intersection of causation, responsibility, and moral norms.

Charlotta Svonni is a PhD candidate in History and Education with a focus on Sámi education.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of History of Science and Ideas.

Professor of Church History at the Faculty of Arts (50 %) and Professor of History and Education at Umeå School of Education (50 %)

I am Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy. My main research interests are in bioethics (reproductive ethics in particular) and the philosophy of close personal relationships.

Social and economic historian of early modern Europe

Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Philosophy, and one of the department’s equal opportunities representatives.

Glenn Sandström is a Docent/Associate Professor researching family dynamics from a historical and contemporary perspective.

I am senior research assistant at the Environmental Archaeology Lab, working with plant macro-remains.

Doctoral student in Systematic Theology.

I am a Senior Research Assistant in Environmental History, with a focus on global environmental issues, sustainability, and natural resources from a historical perspective. 

Associate professor in History of Science and Ideas. In my research I have focused on the interaction between science, politics and the media in a broad sense. 

I am Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in philosophy.

Writing a thesis on the Swedish controversy over dental amalgam cn mercury poisoning in the 1980's and -90's.

I am associate professor in philosophy and director of our B.A. program in Philosophy and Society. I teach and supervise in moral philosophy and political philosophy.

Senior lecturer/associate professor (docent) in philosophy and subject coordinator for the philosophy subject at Umeå University.

Enjoying an ERC Consolidator Grant (2016-21) I lead a cross-disciplinary team researching how disabilities affect people's participation in society, past and present.

I am a PhD student in philosophy. My research is about lying and misleading, considered from a philosophy of language perspective.

Madeleine Hayenhjelm (Ph.D, Phil.lic., Royal Institute of Technology) is a senior lecturer in Philosophy and Study Advisor for Philosophy.

Professor of Archaeology

I work as a study administrator for the subjects of History and Archaeolgy.

I specialize in philosophy of language. I work mainly on philosophical issues pertaining to the nature of communication and attitude ascriptions.

I am a doctoreal resercher in environmental archaeology, studying how we with the use of kemometric methods, can trace the movement patterns of Neolithic people of Västerbotten, Swedens inland.

I am docent in systematic theology. My research is primarily in philosophical- and fundamental theology, but I am also interested in classical dogmatics.  

PhD student in environmental archaeology, mainly environmental reconstructions and mobility. Project assistant in the SEAD project, responsible for import and quality assurance of data.

I am Associate Professor in New Testament Exegesis. The focus of my research has been early Jewish texts on the one hand, and identity formation and interpretation of history among early Christians on the other.

I teach introductory courses in ethics, metaethics and decision theory. My research focuses on ethics and value theory, especially on moral obligations to future generations.

Peter Bennesved is a historian of science and ideas. Bennesved's researh interest concern the history of civil defense during the twentieth-century from a history of technology-perspective.

Vice Dean of Arts and Humanities. Director of The Environmental Archaeology Lab and the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD). Senior Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology.

I am a PhD student in archaeology studying mobility and spatial organisation at settlements by using archaeological and ethnographical sources combined with chemical, physical and spectral analysis.

I am head of subject for philosophy. Min research focuses on different questions in the philosophy of mind. I teach teacher candidates, and students in philosophy and cognitive science.

PhD student in history, researching the impacts of migration flows in the northern Swedish inland during the 20th century, both on a structural and individual level.

My responsibilities are internal and external communication which include the departments website, calendar, ads, posters and other printed information.

I am a PhD student in philosophy. My research revolves around axiology applied within the field of political philosophy, with a special focus on the capability approach framework.

I am a PhD student in History, researching emotions and perceptions of the capital punishment and royal mercy in petitions in 17th and 18th century Sweden.

My name is Simon Lundberg and I work as a doctoral student in History and Education. My research focuses specifically on history teaching in relation to a multi-ethnic classroom context.

I work as an archaeobotanist at the Environmental Archaeological Laboratory

I am an associate professor of philosophy, with a focus on practical philosophy. My research is centered around free will, moral responsibility, animal ethics and philosophy of psychiatry.

I am associate professor of Sociology of Religion and senior lecturer in Didactics of Religion.

Professor of Psychology of religion.

Ph.D. student in archaeology.

My primary research interests lie in women and gender history from different perspectives: legal, political and social, 1650-1920. Current research, ”End of Love”, investigates Early Modern divorces.